Outage: Faulty UPS at data centre housing London Internet Exchange causes grief for ISPs and telcos alike [Wed Aug 19 2020]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 19 August 2020 ***************************************************************** Outage: Faulty UPS at data centre housing London Internet Exchange causes grief for ISPs and telcos alike Some of the providers have staggered back to feet ***************************************************************** Business * Capita: We were juuust about to generate revenue growth and sustainable cash flow – then pandemic stuffed it up Profits collapse and income slows as virus stymies turnaround plan * Dido 'Queen of Carnage' Harding to lead UK's Institute for Health Protection because Test and Trace went so well Oh, that's right. It was a farce * Former HP CEO and Republican Meg Whitman – who split HP with mixed success – says Donald Trump can't run a business Vows to vote for Democrat Joe Biden instead - as will ex-HP chief Carly Fiorina * Australian regulator slams Google ‘misinformation’ in pay-for-news-fight Picks out porkie about data leakage as left and right unite to protest ad giant’s objections Data Centre * Outage: Faulty UPS at data centre housing London Internet Exchange causes grief for ISPs and telcos alike Some of the providers have staggered back to feet * UK.gov shakes hands on cloud agreement with 'non-cloud service provider' HPE 'The world is hybrid,' the enterprise tech goliath keeps saying * X86 or Arm? AWS now lets you choose both at once for Kubernetes Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters can mix and match architectures for production workloads * Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour Connected car vision has been in first gear for years, cloudy scale could jump-start plans DevOps * Node.js community finally prodded to patch Chromium XHR bug after developer refuses to let flaw stand If at first you don't succeed, try, try... try, try, try... try again Emergent Tech * Pass that Brit guy with the right-hand drive: UK looking into legalising automated lane-keeping systems by 2021 First step to self-driving vehicles on British roads Personal Tech * You'd think 1.8bn users a day would be enough for Zuck. But no. Oculus fans must sign up for Facebook Just imagine how much easier it will be to sell your data... sorry, find, connect, and play with friends * Farewell to notches and hole-punches? ZTE expected to announce mobe with under-display camera next month But will it be any good? * Samsung slows smartphone upgrade treadmill with promise to support three Android generations on Galaxies Who needs a new phone when 2018-vintage kit still packs a punch? * From per-processor licensing to... per-follower? Oracle said to be in talks to buy TikTok’s US operations Plotting new Enterprise Video Sharing Cloud, making mischief for Microsoft, or playing politics? Security * US senators: WikiLeaks 'likely knew it was assisting Russian intelligence influence effort' in 2016 Dem email leak And: 'Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks' to help Donald Trump win White House race Software * Robust Rust trust discussed after Moz cuts leave folks nonplussed: Foundation mulled for coding language Cannot infer an appropriate lifetime, indeed * PowerShell 7.1 Release Candidate is lurking around the corner, but first there's Preview 6 to poke and prod Squeaking in a few late changes * Linux kernel maintainers tear Paragon a new one after firm submits read-write NTFS driver in 27,000 lines of code 'How exactly do you expect someone to review this monstrosity?' * How to have a more positive 'outage experience' according to Microsoft: Please don't rely on the Azure Status page 'We will never be able to avoid outages entirely' CTO confesses * We've come to wish you an unhappy birthday: Microsoft to yank services from Internet Explorer, kill off Legacy Edge by 2021 You need to give that plate back to us after you've finished your cake. Yes the fork too. We'll get your coat Science * A Song of Iceland Fire: Scotland's Skyrora launches Skylark Micro rocket from volcanic viking outpost Have containers, will travel Bootnotes * Securus sued for 'recording attorney-client jail calls, handing them to cops' – months after settling similar lawsuit Gonna blame a software bug again? * Anti-5G-vaxx pressure group sues Zuckerberg, Facebook, fact checkers for daring to suggest it might be wrong Robert Kennedy's son leads legal charge against vaccines, aluminum, paracetamol... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 14 Gray's Inn Road, London, WC1X 8HN, UK The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2020 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: